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Ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for printing press

a technology of printing press and amount adjustment, which is applied in the direction of printing press parts, printing, printing presses, etc., can solve the problems of increasing taking a very long time, and the need to restart proof printing, so as to reduce the amount of wasted paper

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-02-01
KOMORI CORP
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The present invention provides an ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for a printing press that can quickly adjust the amount of ink supplied and reduce the amount of wasted paper. The method includes measuring the density of a printed paper sheet and adjusting the opening ratio of the ink fountain keys based on the difference between the measured density and a preset reference density. The ink ductor roller then supplies the ink to the printing plate through ink rollers by an ink feed operation. This allows for the ink supply amount to be adjusted without printing, resulting in increased efficiency and flexibility.

Problems solved by technology

Especially, in proof printing to obtain some printing products which are normally printed, it takes a very long time, and the amount of wasted paper increases to obtain some printing products which are normally printed.
However, in this method, proof printing must be restarted when a required number of printed products cannot be obtained by proof printing.
It takes a long time, and the amount of wasted print material increases.
In this method, since the ink is supplied to the entire surface of a paper sheet at the same ratio, the ink supply amount cannot be partially adjusted.
Especially, when the area to which the ink is excessively supplied and the area in which an ink shortage occurs are mixed, the ink supply amount cannot be sufficiently adjusted.

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[0030]FIG. 1 shows a proof printing control device according to this embodiment of the present invention. A proof printing control device 10 comprises a CPU 10A, a RAM 10B, a ROM 10C, an input device 10D, a display device 10E, an output device 10F, a memory 10G, a colorimeter 10H, a colorimeter moving motor 10I, a rotary encoder 10J for the calorimeter moving motor, a motor driver 10K for moving the colorimeter, a counter 10L for measuring the current position of the colorimeter, an A / D converter 10M, a D / A converter 10N, a detector 10P for detecting the home position of the colorimeter, an internal clock counter 10Q, a driving motor 10R of a printing press, a driver 10S of a printing press driving motor, a rotary encoder 10T for the printing press driving motor, an F / V converter 10U, an A / D converter 10V, a detector 10W for detecting the home position of the printing press, counter 10X for counting total rotational speed of the printing press, a sheet feeding device 10Y, and input / ...

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[0106] In the first embodiment, the reference correction amount of the ink fountain key opening ratio is multiplied by a predetermined correction coefficient (>1) to obtain the correction amount. This correction amount is added to the current ink fountain key opening ratio to obtain the ink fountain key opening ratio in the preliminary ink feed operation. In contrast to this, in the second embodiment, the reference correction amount of the ink fountain key opening ratio is added to the current ink fountain key opening ratio to obtain the ink fountain key opening ratio in the preliminary ink feed operation. In this case, the ink fountain key opening ratio of each color in the preliminary ink feed operation equals the ink fountain key opening ratio of each color in next proof printing. Hence, the ink fountain key opening ratio need not be adjusted after the preliminary ink feed operation.

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[0107] (1) Each data is input.

[0108] (2) A proof prin...

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Abstract

In an ink supply amount adjustment method, a density value of a printed paper sheet is measured. The ink fountain key opening ratio is corrected on the basis of a difference between the measured density value of the printed paper sheet and a preset reference density value. The ink feed operation of the ink ductor roller is performed without printing after correction of the ink fountain key opening ratio to increase or decrease the amount of ink on the ink rollers.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to an ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for a printing press, which adjusts the ink supply amount to a printing plate by adjusting the opening ratio of an ink fountain key. [0002] Generally, a rotary printing press includes a plurality of color printing units, and each color printing unit includes an inking device (inker). Referring to FIG. 12, the inking device comprises an ink fountain 1, ink 2 stored in the ink fountain 1, an ink fountain roller 3, a plurality of ink fountain keys 4-1 to 4-n juxtaposed in the axial direction of the ink fountain roller 3, an ink ductor roller 5, ink rollers 6, and a plate cylinder 8 on which a printing plate 7 is mounted. An image is printed on the printing plate 7. [0003] In this inking device, the ink 2 in the ink fountain 1 is supplied to the ink fountain roller 3 through the gap between the ink fountain keys 4-1 to 4-n and the ink fountain roller 3. The ink suppli...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B41F31/02
CPCB41F31/045B41P2233/11B41F33/0045
Inventor INDE, AKIHIROHIRANO, MASAHIRO
Owner KOMORI CORP
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